Green Hornet to Look a Lot Like a White Stripes Video

The departure of director Stephen Chow from Seth Rogen’s The Green Hornet suggested the project might be postponed indefinitely. Thanks to Michel Gondry, however, the Hornet flies (stings? What does the Hornet do, anyway?) again.

Variety reports the director—an unabashedly quirky filmmaker whose lo-fi, kinetic visual flourishes have influenced everything from Coke commercials to Oscar opening numbers—will be taking over. What does that portend for the project? Look for Hornet to sacrifice Chow’s jokey, action-heavy Hong Kong cinema aesthetic, replaced instead by Gondry’s decidedly more meta flights of fancy. His touch could ultimately prove to make all the difference in bringing some of the script’s more static scenes alive, however, such as when the Hornet kicks back with a bowl of Funyuns next to bong-hogging sidekick Kato, the two unmotivated crime-fighters giggling hysterically at a Sweded version of their own misadventures.

• Michel Gondry set for ‘Green Hornet’ [Variety]